Twice a month you can play a new crossword puzzle on The New York Times Learning Network.
The puzzles are edited by the Times puzzle master, Will Shortz.
If your browser supports Java, you can
play the puzzle on-line,or you can print an image of the puzzle to play with pencil and paper.

The theme of this month's puzzle is People of the Millennium. Many of the puzzle clues relate to scientists, artists, politicians, inventors and others whose thoughts and actions shaped the millennium.

To learn more about this topic, visit these Web sites.

Classroom Today's Events that Changed History (http://ts.classroom.com/turnstyle.asp?link=8570) surveys the inventions, historic happenings, medical innovations, and fads that defined the twentieth century. Take a field trip to discover how New York City has changed over the past one hundred years.

A&E's Biography (http://www.biography.com/) from A&E provides over 15,000 biographies from the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, which can be searched or browsed.